The Spielvogel Award (established in 2014) recognizes the outstanding presentation (paper or poster) by an undergrad student at the Annual Meeting. Papers/posters submitted for this award must be based on novel analysis and interpretation of primary data (collected by the student and/or a co-author) and/or secondary data (published or unpublished data collected by someone other than the author[s]). In addition to delivering the presentation at the Annual Meeting, the candidate for the award is expected to have made a major contribution to the work (e.g., at least 50% of the data collection and/or analysis and/or writing). Papers/posters are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the research, analysis and presentation by a sub-committee of the HBA Executive Committee. Recipients are honored at the annual meeting Awards Luncheon.
2014 Rebecca Bedwell (Indiana University): “The impact of federal breastfeeding policy initiatives and socioeconomic factors in Indiana on women’s breastfeeding practices and attitudes”
2014 William Olson (University of Oregon): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Depression and body composition among aging populations.”
2015 Natasha Hoehn (University of Calgary): “Dietary diversity in the Mukishi of Guyana”
2016 Jonah Stone
2017 Joshua Miller
2018 Caroline Owens
2019 Kate Tanawattanacharoen
2021 Kaspars Mikelsteins
2022 Suzanna Alejandra Geisel-Zamora